Steven Spielberg

I mean, a lot of filmmakers are shy about even confessing that they have any gift at all.

Those who have been really successful, I don't know anybody in my circle...

I mean, I paint models with directors at Guillermo del Toro's house every weekend.

And not once during those model painting and making sessions has anybody referred to themselves as gifted.

I don't know.

We talk about... I mean, we talk about... We certainly talk about stuff we've done and how much fun it is to make movies and cook up stuff that never existed five seconds ago and suddenly you get an idea.

Where did that idea come from?

What came from being born and living and experiencing everything?

And that's where your ideas come from.

But we never look at each other like...

I think Guillermo del Toro is a genius, but Guillermo will never refer to him that way, nor will I ever say to Guillermo, you're a genius because it's going to make all of us blush.

I mean, that's something that we don't talk about.

We don't think of ourselves, any of us that way.

We think of ourselves as people that love doing what we do, but it's the hardest thing we've ever done.

There is nothing harder I can imagine except raising children.

then in my profession, there's nothing harder than directing a movie.

No, I've never gone into a spiral.

Usually when I have a movie that opens, I go away somewhere where nobody can find me and where I can't read anything.

I try to go away.

I go because it's my excuse for taking a vacation.